I agree with the Democrats on this

James Pinkerton writes that the Democrats may have discovered a new wedge issue that will give them support in the coming election: stem cell research. When President Bush put his ban limiting the lines availible for research in place a few years ago I was somewhat supportive of the move. Using embyronic stem cells does have some moral ramifications and current science at the time suggested that the existing stem cell lines would be sufficient for research purposes. Since that time the number of lines that can be used for research has dwindled and several are considered unusable. Research is suffering as a result. Stem cell research is the amoung most promising medical research we currently conducting. We need to increase the funding for this, for all types, including embroyonic stem cell research and we need to make availible more lines of embryonic stems cells to research with.